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From  ‘Death  to  Life 

One  memorable  morning  in  Athtns, 
Greece,  stalwart  Bishop  Pantelemon  offi- 
ciated at  two  startlingly  different  ceremonies. 

The  first  was  a sad  memorial  service  in 
honor  of  those  who  had  given  their  lives  in 
the  service  of  their  country  during  the  war. 
The  other — held  at  the  headquarters  of  the 
Livestock  Rehabilitation  Project  of  Near 
East  Foundation — was  the  joyous  blessing  of 
six  bulls  from  America  and  the  equipment  to 


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be  used  in  restoring  the  milk  and  meat  supply 
of  Greece. 

The  bishop  began  his  address  by  saying, 
"I  am  come  from  the  blight  of  death  to  the 
source  of  life”. 

"From  death  to  life!”  What  words  could 
better  express  the  purpose  of  this  project. 
A single  fact  will  suffice  to  indicate  how 
critical  is  the  need  this  program  is  designed 
to  meet.  At  the  beginning  of  the  war  there 
were  22,000  cows  in  Attica,  at  the  close 
only  7,000.  This  is  typical  of  the  situation 
throughout  the  country.  One  may  readily 
see  what  the  consequent  scarcity  of  milk 
means  to  the  health  and  happiness  of  the 
children  of  Greece  as  well  as  the  depletion 
of  the  meat  supply  and  the  dislocation  of 
the  financial  economy  of  a country  depen- 
dent upon  animal  husbandry  as  one  of  its 
largest  agricultural  industries. 

Two  objects  are  sought  by  Near  East 
Foundation — to  increase  the  supply  of  milk 
and  to  improve  the  quality  of  the  cattle. 
The  bulls  sent  to  Greece  by  Near  East  Foun- 
dation are  from  the  best  blooded  stock  in 
America.  By  modern  methods  of  artificial 
insemination  it  is  possible  to  breed  from  ten 
to  forty  times  as  many  cows  as  by  former 
methods,  thus  greatly  increasing  the  flow 
of  milk. 


This  breeding  program  is  accompanied  by 
education  and  demonstration  of  improved 
forage  production  and  feeding  methods — a 
most  important  item  because  of  the  scarcity 
of  feed. 

The  project  is  in  charge  of  two  highly 
trained  Americans,  enlisted  and  sent  to 
Greece  by  Near  East  Foundation,  Dr.  F. 
Irvine  Elliott  of  Cornell  and  Mathias  Die- 
trick  of  Ohio  State  University.  The  quality 
of  the  leadership  insures  the  highest  degree  of 
technical  skill  and  standards.  Greek  techni- 
cians are  being  trained  to  help  in  the  program 
and,  in  accordance  with  the  well-established 
self-help  policy  of  the  Foundation,  ultimately 
to  take  over  and  operate  the  project  entirely 
under  Greek  auspices. 

To  have  a part  in  such  a service  as  this  is 
one  of  the  quickest  and  surest  ways  to  con- 
tribute to  the  health  and  well-being  of  the 
entire  country. 


NEAR  EAST  FOUNDATION 

17  WEST  46  STREET,  NEW  YORK  19,  N.  Y. 

632  Little  Building  601  East  Franklin  St. 
Boston  16,  Mass.  Richmond  19,  Va. 

This  is  the  fourth  in  a series  of  stories  covering  the 

current  projects  of  the  Foundation. 


